epacrids

pl. [Mod. Lat. epacris (gen it. epacrid is ), and Eng. pl. suff. -s.] Bot.: The name given to the order Epacridacese. ě-păc-ris, s. [Gr. epakrios =on the heights, from akra =the point, the top of a hill, referring to the fact that these plants grow on the tops of hills.] Bot .: A large genus of plants, the typical one of shrubs, two to four feet high, generally with sharp the order Epacrid a cere (q. v.). They are branched white scarlet mortuorax They pointed lanceolate or cordate leaves, and axillary abound in Australia, New Zealand, . e-păct, s. [Fr. épacte; Gr. epaktai (pl.)=inter foreign.) calary (days); epaktos =brought in from abroad, The Chron.: A number which indicates the exce of the common solar year above the lunar one. The e ential point is to ascertain the age of the moon in any year, and its epact denotes the moon's age on the first of January in that year. If the new moon twelve months then beginning is 0 or zero. happens on the first of January, the epact for the lunar year of 354 days is shorter than the solar ono of 365 days by 11 days, and this difference runs through every year of the lunar cycle. The epact of the first year of the cycle is 11, that of the second 11+11=22, that of the third year would be 33 if the moon could ever be so old, but as it cannot go beyond 30, the epact is 33-30-3. That of the fourth is 3+11=14, and so on. ever, divide the number of centuries in the year by To find the Greg or i an epact for any year what4, multiply the remainder by 17, add to this 43 times the quotient +86, and divide the total by 25. Subtract the quotient thus formed from the Golden Number multiplied by 11. If the remainder is susceptible of being diminished by one or more thirties take it or them from it, and the result will be the epact required. (Sir Harris Nicolas: Chron. of IMG:content-1061.png:[blocks in formation] palpum , palpus =a stroking.] [PALPI.] të-păl-pāte, a. [Latin e = out, without, and Entom.: Without palpi. fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wet, here, camel, her, thêre; IMG:content-1062.png:[blocks in formation] epanadiplosis ěp-ăn-a-di-plo-sis, s . [Gr., from epanadiploō =to make double, to repeat; diploō -to double; diploos=double.] [ANADIPLOSIS. Rhet.: Repetition; a term applied to that figure in rhetoric when the sentence ends with the same word with which it begins: as, " Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice ." ( Phil . iv. 4.) ěp-ăn-a-lěp-sis, s . [Gr., from epi , and analēp sis taking up again, repetition; an a lamb anō -to take up again, to repeat.] Rhet.: A figure of speech by which the same word or clause is repeated after a parenthesis.